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I have, for all intents and purposes, left the building. If there are any lingering issues I thought were resolved but aren't, please email me. Hasta luego. --barneca (talk) 16:30, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Just wanted to let you know I replied to your message at User talk:Tanthalas39. --Kralizec! (talk) 18:44, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

(for context, this is a copy/paste of Kralizec's message; I think it would be more appropriate to discuss it here, rather than Tan's talk page.) Sorry, I cannot support the out-of-process block of 217.205.107.210 (talk · contribs · block log). The fact is, this IP followed Aldwinteo's final warning [1] and stopped vandalizing, yet was blocked for a week anyway. How can we expect others to follow our rules here, if we do not follow them ourselves? --Kralizec! (talk) 18:42, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't think of it as out of process. If you look at the history of the IP, for the last several weeks there has been nothing but vandalism coming from that IP, but after their previous block on 9/22, it's been coming in dribbles infrequent enough to avoid triggering a level 4 warning. Our process is not a free pass to vandalize an article or two every few days. I considered their editing pattern of the last few weeks, and that a previous 1 week block didn't work, that a 1 month block to stop the disruption was appropriate, and within the provisions of WP:BLOCK. Please see User:Barneca/Blocking policy for more of my thinking on this, as I've recently re-thought my position on this.

I would have absolutely no problem with you unblocking and seeing if there's a change in behavior. And if, after reviewing the last few weeks' editing history of the IP, you think this was a significantly out-of-process block, rather than just a more-agressive-than-normal block in a grey area, please come back here and we can discuss some more; I certainly have no intention of being a cowboy, blocking people left and right that most admins don't think should be blocked. Ultimately, I think from the editing history there that there is little chance of blocking a potentially productive editor; that I guarantee that it is preventing disruption for a month; and the certainty from looking at their edits that these weren't test edits, but edits specifically intended to damage the encyclopedia, that this was reasonable. --barneca (talk) 19:16, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

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Haha, you may have a point there. :) C1k3 (talk) 07:20, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

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This hiding of stale warnings seems like a good idea. Where is the template to do that? Han-Kwang (t) 08:11, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

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-| name        = Mira Nair
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-| birthdate   = {{birth date and age|1957|10|15}}
-| location    = [[Rourkela]], [[Orissa]], [[India]]
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-| occupation  = [[Film director]]
+*[[/Archive 1|February - June 2007]]
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+*[[/Archive 2|July - August 2007]]
-| spouse      = [[Mahmood Mamdani]] (? - present)
+*[[/Archive 3|September - October 2007]]
+*[[/Archive 4|November - December 2007]]
+*[[/Archive 5|January - February 2008]]
+*[[/Archive 6|March - April 2008]]
+*[[/Archive 7|May - June 2008]]
+*[[/Archive 8|July - August 2008]]
+*[[/Archive 9|September - October 2008]]
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+== Replied ==
-'''Mira Nair''' (born [[October 15]] [[1957]] at [[Rourkela]], [[India]]) is an [[India]]-born, [[New York]]-based [[film director]]. Her production company is [[Mirabai Films]].
-She was educated at [[Delhi University]] and [[Harvard University]]. Her debut feature film, ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]'', won the [[Golden Camera]] award at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] and also earned the [[Academy award|Oscar]] nomination for best foreign film.  She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter [[Sooni Taraporevala]], whom she met at Harvard.
-She is awarded [[India Abroad]] 'Person of the Year-2007', which was presented by [[Indra Nooyi]], Chairperson and CEO, [[PepsiCo]], Inc, and [[India Abroad]] 'Person of the Year-2006' <ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/mar/29iapoy.htm Mira Nair is India Abroad Person of the Year 2007] News, ''[[Rediff.com]]'', [[March 29]], [[2008]].</ref>
-==Early life==
-Mira [[Nair]] was born in [[Rourkela]],<ref>[http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=130459 'Namesake a tribute to Ritwik Ghatak', says Mira Nair - Mira Nair interview] ''[[Indian Express]]'', [[May 22]], [[2005]].</ref> [[Orissa]], where her Punjabi father, Nayyar, she spells her surname Nair (having his roots in [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]]) was employed. She was the youngest of three children from a middle-class family. Her father was a [[civil servant]] and her mother a social worker.
-Mira did her early schooling at a boarding school in [[Shimla]] known as [[Loreto Convent,Tara Hall, Shimla]]. She studied sociology in [[Delhi University]], where she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company. In 1976, at age 19  she left for the US <ref name=name>[http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/mar/21mira.htm Namesake Interview] ''News'', ''[[Rediff.com]]'', [[March 21]], [[2007]].</ref> with a scholarship at [[Harvard]], where she continued her study in sociology <ref>[http://www.sawnet.org/cinema/?Nair+Mira Mira Nair Profile] ''The South Asian Women's NETwork]] (SAWNET).</ref>, and later met her first husband [[Mitch Epstein]], as well as her screenwriter, [[Sooni Taraporevala]] and gradually moved towards making documentary films.
-==Career==
-At the beginning of her career as a film artist, Nair directed four [[documentary film|documentaries]]. ''India Cabaret'', a film about the lives of strippers in a Bombay nightclub, won an award at the American Film Festival in 1986.
-''[[Salaam Bombay!]]'' (1988), with a screenplay by [[Sooni Taraporevala]], was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, and won many other awards. It is today considered a groundbreaking film classic, and is standard fare for film students.
-The  1991 film ''[[Mississippi Masala]]'' starred [[Denzel Washington]] and [[Sarita Choudhury]], and profiled a family of displaced [[Uganda]]n-Indians living and working in [[Mississippi]]. The screenplay was again by [[Sooni Taraporevala]], and produced by Michael Nozik. In 1995 her [[The Perez Family (film)|film adaption]] of the book [[The Perez Family (novel)|The Perez Family]], by Christine Bell, was released. The film starred [[Marisa Tomei]], [[Alfred Molina]], and [[Angelica Huston]], and was again produced by Michael Nozik.
-She was also the director of the movie  ''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]'', a provocative movie set in 16th century [[India]].
-''My Own Country'' starring [[Naveen Andrews]], was produced for HBO films, adapted from the memoir by [[Abraham Verghese]] by [[Sooni Taraporevala]].
-Nair's most popular film to date, ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]'' (2001), about a chaotic [[Punjab, India|Punjabi]] Indian wedding with a screenplay by [[Sabrina Dhawan]], was awarded the prestigious [[Golden Lion|Golden Lion award]] at the [[Venice film festival]]. Her 2004 version of [[William Makepeace Thackeray|Thackeray]]'s novel, ''[[Vanity Fair (2004 film)|Vanity Fair]]'', starred [[Reese Witherspoon]].
-Her latest film, ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]'', premiered in the fall of 2006 at [[Dartmouth College]] where Nair was presented with the Dartmouth Film Award. Another premiere was held in fall 2006 with the Indo-American Cultural Council in New York. ''The Namesake'', adapted by [[Sooni Taraporevala]] from the novel by Pulitzer prize winner [[Jhumpa Lahiri]], was released in March 2007.
-Her latest project is Maisha, a film lab to help [[East Africa]]ns and [[South Asians]] learn to make films. Maisha is headquartered in Nair's adopted home of [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]].
-Nair is also working on the big-budget [[Johnny Depp]]-starrer ''[[Shantaram (film)|Shantaram]]'' in [[India]], the [[U.K.]] and possibly [[Australia]]. The movie has been delayed due to the [[Writers Guild of America, East]] strike. She is also credited with directing a film in pre-production ''[[New York, I Love You]]'', a romantic-drama anthology of love stories set in New York. Her future film [[Impressionist]] is a coming-of-age story set in the Raj of the 1920s.
-Nair will be honoured with the "Pride of India" award at the 9th Bollywood Film Awards later this year for her contributions to the film industry. <ref>[http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a8b47023-270e-47f0-a6c2-399a750ab572& Bollywood to honour Mira Nair with 'Pride of India' award] ''[[Hindustan Times]]'', [[April 23]], [[2007]].</ref>
-She has done a 12-minute movie on AIDS awareness (funded by The Gates Foundation) called [[Migration]]<ref>[http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/July/20070703095706lmlenuhret0.5317957.html Mira Nair’s latest film project takes the message to Indian cinema halls]</ref>[http://www.jaman.com/movie/Migration/0mPGmGr2oVoU/].
-==Personal life==
-Nair lives near [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] where she is an adjunct professor in the Film Division of the [[Columbia University School of the Arts|School of Arts]], and where her husband, Professor [[Mahmood Mamdani]], also teaches <ref>[http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/film/viewFaculty.jsp Faculty] ''[[Columbia University School of the Arts]]''.</ref>, whom she first met in 1988, when she went to [[Uganda]] for the first time to research for the film [[Mississippi Masala]] <ref name=name/>. Nair has been an enthusiastic [[yoga]] practitioner for decades; when making a film, she has the cast and crew start the day with a yoga session.<ref>[http://mirabaifilms.com/wordpress/?page_id=32 Mira Nair interview with International Herald Tribune]</ref>
-Nair has one son, Zohran Mamdani, born in 1991, currently attending The [[Bronx High School of Science]].
+Just wanted to let you know I replied to your message at [[User talk:Tanthalas39]].  --[[User:Kralizec!|Kralizec!]] ([[User talk:Kralizec!|talk]]) 18:44, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
-==Literature==
-*Jigna Desai: ''Beyond [[Bollywood]]: The cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film''. New York: Routledge, 2004,  280 pp. ill. ISBN 0-415-96684-1 (inb.) / ISBN 0-415-96685-X (hft.)
-*Gita Rajan: ''Pliant and compliant: colonial Indian art and postcolonial cinema''. ''Women''. Oxford (Print), ISSN 0957-4042 ; 13(2002):1, pp. 48&ndash;69.
-*Alpana Sharma: ''Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films''. ''QRFV : Quarterly review of film and video'', ISSN 1050-9208 ; 18(2001):1, pp. 91&ndash;103.
-*Pratibha Parmar: ''Mira Nair: filmmaking in the streets of Bombay''. ''Spare rib'', ISSN 0306-7971; 198, 1989, pp. 28&ndash;29.
-*Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: ''Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity''. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8093-2120-3
+<small>(for context, this is a copy/paste of Kralizec's message; I think it would be more appropriate to discuss it here, rather than Tan's talk page.)</small>
-==Further reading==
+Sorry, I cannot support the out-of-process block of {{userblock|217.205.107.210}}.  The fact is, this IP followed Aldwinteo's final warning [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3A217.205.107.210&diff=244375929&oldid=242725454] and stopped vandalizing, yet was blocked for a week anyway.  How can we expect others to follow our rules here, if we do not follow them ourselves?  --[[User:Kralizec!|Kralizec!]] ([[User talk:Kralizec!|talk]]) 18:42, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
-* ''Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair'', by John Kenneth Muir. Published by Hal Leonard, 2006. ISBN 1557836493, 9781557836496.
+:I don't think of it as out of process.  If you look at the history of the IP, for the last several weeks there has been nothing but vandalism coming from that IP, but after their previous block on 9/22, it's been coming in dribbles infrequent enough to avoid triggering a level 4 warning.  Our process is not a free pass to vandalize an article or two every few days.  I considered their editing pattern of the last few weeks, and that a previous 1 week block didn't work, that a 1 month block to stop the disruption was appropriate, and within the provisions of [[WP:BLOCK]].  Please see [[User:Barneca/Blocking policy]] for more of my thinking on this, as I've recently re-thought my position on this.
+:I would have absolutely no problem with you unblocking and seeing if there's a change in behavior.  And if, after reviewing the last few weeks' editing history of the IP, you think this was a significantly out-of-process block, rather than just a more-agressive-than-normal block in a grey area, please come back here and we can discuss some more; I certainly have no intention of being a cowboy, blocking people left and right that most admins don't think should be blocked. Ultimately, I think from the editing history there that there is little chance of blocking a potentially productive editor; that I guarantee that it is preventing disruption for a month; and the certainty from looking at their edits that these weren't test edits, but edits specifically intended to damage the encyclopedia, that this was reasonable. --[[User:Barneca|barneca]] ([[User talk:Barneca#top|talk]]) 19:16, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
-== References ==
+== Arm &  Hammer Stocks ==
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+Haha, you may have a point there. :) [[User:C1k3|C1k3]] ([[User talk:C1k3|talk]]) 07:20, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
-== External links ==
-* [http://in.movies.yahoo.com/namesake-movie/ Mira Nair Interview on Yahoo! India Movies] (link broken as of May 12th, 2008)
-* [http://www.sawnet.org/cinema/?Nair+Mira SAWNET biography]
-* [http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Nair.html Biography]
-* {{imdb name|id=0619762|name=Mira Nair}}
-* [http://www.maishafilmlab.com Maisha Film Lab] in Kampala, Uganda
-* [http://lx.com/drinks/2007/03/01/mira-nair-award-winning-director-writer-producer/ Video Interview on LX.TV]
-* [http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/cmn.html A Conversation with Mira Nair] - Harvard @ Home program
-* [http://www.mirabaifilms.com/bio.html featured profile of Mira Nair] - on MirabaiFilms.com
-*[http://sidewalkstv.com/specialfeatures/movies/namesake.html Video interview] with "The Namesake" director on ''[[Sidewalks Entertainment]]''
+== warning archive ==
-{{Films directed by Mira Nair}}
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:75.90.121.157&diff=242147559&oldid=242130863 This hiding of stale warnings] seems like a good idea. Where is the template to do that? [[User:Hankwang|Han-Kwang]] ([[User talk:Hankwang|t]]) 08:11, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
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